Last month, Emma, Duchess of Rutland, sat in her drawing room and weighed the pros and cons of living over the shop. Specifically, Belvoir Castle, a stately and splendid pile perched on a wooded hilltop in the English countryside with more than 356 rooms and soaring neo-Gothic towers and turrets. It has been the site of the family seat since the 16th century.
“Well, it is magnificent, of course, and we are incredibly lucky, but you never quite know who is in here with you,” she said. “There isn’t privacy in the way most people might expect from their homes. And don’t get me started on the ghosts.”
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